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Live updates: Trump's Cabinet talks Texas flooding, tariffs, Iran attacks
President Trump is meeting with his Cabinet at the White House amid a swirl of activity on trade, foreign policy and more. Trump also talking about the deadly Texas flooding and said he will visit the area on Friday. Likely to come up are the new tariff letters sent out on Monday to several countries. The administration delayed the implementation until Aug. 1, giving Trump and his trade leaders time to make deals. The president and his Cabinet meet at 11 a.m. EDT Tuesday for the first time after Trump's sweeping agenda passed Congress last week, setting up massive reforms in safety net policies, continued tax cuts and more. When will the changes laid out in the legislation take effect? Read more here. Ahead of that meeting, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, Attorney General Pam Bondi, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and several governors will hold a press conference on a new effort to secure the nation's farms from threats. Watch it live here. Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu spends Tuesday in D.C. after meeting Monday evening at the White House. He'll meet with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Tuesday morning and a bipartisan group of senators in the afternoon. Catch up on today's other top stories: Follow along for updates on these stories and more.
CBS News
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- CBS News
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with congressional leaders
Washington — Congressional leaders are meeting Tuesday with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after some lawmakers accused the Israeli leader of trying to drag the U.S. into another war. Netanyahu is meeting with House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday. Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, postponed a trip to Israel in June to address the Israeli parliament, known as the Knesset, as war broke out with Iran. Vice President JD Vance also met with Netanyahu at Blair House on Tuesday morning. Netanyahu's visit to the U.S. Capitol comes as Mr. Trump faces criticism from Democrats and some Republicans over his decision to strike three locations central to Iran's nuclear program last month. Lawmakers introduced several measures in the Senate and House seeking to restrict Mr. Trump from taking further action against Iran without approval. The Senate voted down a war powers resolution introduced by Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, while the other measures have yet to receive a vote. Netanyahu met with administration officials Monday and had dinner at the White House with the president. Speaking to reporters Monday, Mr. Trump expressed confidence that there will be a ceasefire with Hamas soon. And on U.S.-Iran talks, he forecasted that more details would come out Tuesday. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as they meet at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on July 8, 2025. JIM WATSON/POOL/AFP via Getty Images The meetings come after Johnson postponed a planned trip to Israel last month, where he had planned to address Israel's parliament in Jerusalem, amid open warfare between Israel and Iran. It would have been one of a small number of foreign trips he's made since becoming speaker. Johnson met with Netanyahu in Washington in February. During the visit, Netanyahu also met with Senate Majority Leader John Thune and a bipartisan group of senators. The Israeli prime minister addressed a joint meeting of Congress nearly a year ago as he sought to shore up support for Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza, while criticizing those who had protested against the conflict.
USA Today
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- USA Today
Ted Cruz left family trip to Greece amid deadly Texas flash floods
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, was days into a pre-planned vacation to Athens, Greece, when devastating flash floods hit the Texas Hill Country over the Independence Day weekend. The senator said he spoke with state officials, including Gov. Greg Abbott, and President Donald Trump by phone on July 4. Cruz then "promptly" booked a return flight, according to his office. He departed Athens Sunday morning and landed in Texas that evening, Cruz's spokesperson Macarena Martinez said, without specifying the exact time of the flight. By Monday, Cruz was in Kerr County, the site of much of the destruction, for an official briefing. "Texas is grieving right now," Cruz said. "The pain, the shock of what has transpired these last few days has broken the heart of our state." As of July 8, more than 100 people have been confirmed dead, including 27 children and counselors from a girls' summer camp in the area. Ten campers and one counselor remain missing, as search efforts are ongoing. At the same Kerrville conference July 7, Cruz criticized "partisan games" in the wake of weather-related disasters. "There will naturally be a period of retrospection where you look back and say, 'Ok, what exactly transpired, what was the timeline and what could have been done differently to prevent this loss of life?'" Cruz said. "That's a natural process. I think it should not happen in a bitter and partisan sense, but it should happen in a reasonable sense of saying, what lessons can we learn?" News of Cruz's trip abroad was first reported July 7 and drew comparisons to a 2021 incident in which the senator fled the state for Cancún, Mexico, in the midst of an ongoing winter storm. Cruz said at the time the trip was "obviously a mistake." His pre-planned trip to Athens over July 4 followed days of debate and voting in the Senate over Trump's sweeping tax, spending and policy legislation.
